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Compression and visual quality assessment for light field contents

Since its invention in the 19th century, photography has allowed to create durable images of the world around us by capturing the intensity of light that flows through a scene, first analogically by using light-sensitive material, and then, with the advent ...

EPFL2019

Light field compression using translation-assisted view estimation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

Light field technology has recently been gaining traction in the research community. Several acquisition technologies have been demonstrated to properly capture light field information, and portable devices have been commercialized to the general public. H ...

IEEE2019

An in-depth analysis of single-image subjective quality assessment of light field contents

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

Quality assessment of light field images poses new questions and challenges, due to the enriched nature of the content and the possibilities it offers at the rendering step. Image-based rendering is conventionally used to showcase the increased capabilitie ...

2019

A comprehensive study of the rate-distortion performance in MPEG point cloud compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola, Evangelos Alexiou

Recent trends in multimedia technologies indicate the need for richer imaging modalities to increase user engagement with the content. Among other alternatives, point clouds denote a viable solution that offers an immersive content representation, as witne ...

2019

A comprehensive framework for visual quality assessment of light field tensor displays

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

In recent years, light field technology has attracted the interest of academia and industry, thanks to the possibility of rendering 3D scenes in a more realistic and immersive way. In particular, light field displays have been consistently investigated for ...

Society for Imaging Science and Technology2019

Rendering-dependent compression and quality evaluation for light field contents

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

Light field representation promises to overcome the limitations of stereoscopic representation by allowing for a more seamless transition between multiple points of views, thus giving a more faithful representation of 3D scenes. However, in order to take f ...

2019

A Rendering Solution to Display Light Field in Virtual Reality

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Irene Viola

There is a need for affordable and easily deployable rendering and display solutions to take full advantage of light field imaging. In particular, the research community needs ways to better assess the impact of various light field imaging technologies bas ...

IEEE2018

Comparison of Interactive Subjective Methodologies for Light Field Quality Evaluation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

The recent advances in light field acquisition and rendering technologies have attracted a lot of interest from the scientific community. Due to their large amount of data, efficient compression of light field content is of paramount importance for storage ...

2018

Quality assessment of compression solutions for ICIP 2017 Grand Challenge on light field image coding

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

In recent years, the research community has witnessed a growing interest in immersive representations of the real world, such as light field. However, due to the increased volume of data generated in the acquisition, new and efficient compression algorithm ...

2018

VALID: Visual quality Assessment for Light field Images Dataset

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

In the last years, light field imaging has experienced a surge of popularity among the scientific community for its capability of rendering the 3D world in a more immersive way. In particular, several compression algorithms have been proposed to efficientl ...

2018

A graph learning approach for light field image compression

Pascal Frossard, Touradj Ebrahimi, Hermina Petric Maretic, Irene Viola

In recent years, light field imaging has attracted the attention of the academic and industrial communities thanks to its enhanced rendering capabilities that allow to visualise contents in a more immersive and interactive way. However, those enhanced capa ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2018

Overview of the JPEG XS core coding system subjective evaluations

Touradj Ebrahimi, Benoît Macq, Irene Viola, Jakub Pospisil

The JPEG committee (Joint Photographic Experts Group, formally known as ISO/IEC SC29 WG1) is currently in the process of standardizing JPEG XS, a new interoperable solution for low-latency, lightweight and visually lossless compression of image and video. ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2018

Impact of interactivity on the assessment of quality of experience for light field content

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek, Irene Viola

The recent advances in light field imaging are changing the way in which visual content is captured, processed and consumed. Storage and delivery systems for light field images rely on efficient compression algorithms. Such algorithms must additionally tak ...

2017

Comparison and evaluation of light field image coding approaches

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek, Irene Viola

The recent advances in light field imaging, supported among others by the introduction of commercially available cameras e.g. Lytro or Raytrix, are changing the ways in which visual content is captured and processed. Efficient storage and delivery systems ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Objective and subjective evaluation of light field image compression algorithms

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek, Irene Viola

This paper reports results of subjective and objective quality assessments of responses to a grand challenge on light field image compression. The goal of the challenge was to collect and evaluate new compression algorithms for light field images. In total ...

2016